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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.

P. J. O'Rourke

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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Country Else Government Idea Prefer Sensible Somebody
You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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Critics Most President Serve Something Stupid Usually
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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Always Anything People Tell Truth
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Artistic Country Impact Life Tremendous Woodstock
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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Come Creep Duty Enfeeble Evil Human Law Plan Rule
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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Bit Difficult Express Fiction Government More Past Size Something
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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Broken Interest Like More Paint Person Place Probably Sensible
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Irritate Let More Nuisance Other President
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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Greet Hat Lady Nothing Off Stupid Taken
I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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Country Dirty Enough Now Old Over Remember
Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Create Hazard Morale Regulation
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Affair Force Great Human Stupid
I’m too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom’s earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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Earn Earring Mom Pubescent Sensitive Some Tongue Toug Twerp
The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Average Beauty Citizen Democracy Lead Random Unremarkable
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Again Born Cow Dairy Hunt Make Scope
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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Divorce Prior Rate Reason Relation Seventy Until Veen

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